| dc.description.abstract | >taff performance is a critical aspect of an organizations ability to meet its objectives, survive, and hrive Best practice in staff performance involves a full range of managerial practices. For this reason, he study sought to investigate the factors influencing performance of staff in TIVET Institutions in Cisumu County. The study employed a descriptive survey design where by a sample of 210 respondents vere selected from a population of 415 members of staff from TIVET Institutions in Kisumu County. The study used primary data and which was collected using semi structured questionnaire. The data jmployed factor analysis and descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages and mean was used o analyze the data.
The response rate was 92.86%. The study established that the factors influencing performance of staff vere: training of staff, consideration of professional qualification during recruitment, proper selection jf staff attributes for job qualification, fairness in recruitment styles, awareness of career opportunities n the institutions, staff knowing what is expected of them within the institution, staff trust in the supervisors, supervisor timely provision of feedback to improve their performance, supervisors helping in resolving conflicts to ensure that performance is not compromised, staff ability to balance professional and personal responsibilities, staff being well rewarded when they perform well, staff being adequately informed of their compensations and benefits when they are employed and lastly staff being paid adequately for their responsibilities. The study recommends that the public TIVET institutions should allow management successions; adopt checks and structures in the recruitment process to ensure that fairness is maintained, and that the staff in public TIVET institutions should be adequately paid for their responsibilities. The study suggests that the same study in other areas of the economy so as to check whether the same results would hold. Such areas maybe areas such as the manufacturing sector and other service allied sectors. Since this study was conducted at one point in time, future researchers should do the same study in a longitudinal manner so as to observe the trends of the factors influencing performance of staff. Lastly, since this study only went as far as establishing the factors influencing staff performance, future studies should establish the extent to which these factors influenced staff performance | en_US |
